Example sentences for: corny

How can you use “corny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Made with a gee-whiz earnestness and simplicity that's so out of style it's refreshing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Others are more wary of the movie's syrupy core: David Denby says the film is "borderline corny, but I was held by it; I was even moved by it" ( The New Yorker ), and David Edelstein in

  • Roger Ebert calls it "unrelentingly corny" ( Chicago Sun-Times ). (Visit the official site.)

  • During the mission briefing on the fateful day, Button was "cutting up and making his corny little jokes," just as he usually did.

  • Brits as Corny as Iowa in August

  • Sweet and funny without being corny, the film "belongs to a small genre of crowd-pleasers [such as] The Full Monty and Brassed Off " (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). (Visit the official site; Slate 's David Edelstein is not charmed: "I see a future for elderly male actors willing to shed their clothes for laughs, but I don't see myself in the audience."


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